Funny Games ("Torture porn for the art-house crowd." )

[Elano]

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Maybe this movie is already 'old' in usa,but will be released in my country this week.
What do y'all think about it ?

Michael Haneke's English-language remake of his 1997 film "Funny Games” could be the most polarizing art-house film of the year — those who admire its supposedly brave rebuke of "torture porn” steadfastly defend it, while those who see "Funny Games” as smarmily complicit in the cultural violence it allegedly critiques would like to burn the master copy. Regardless of these dueling perceptions, "Funny Games” is excruciating not for its ultraviolence, but for being so thoroughly sold on its own supposed significance.

When Ann and George (Naomi Watts and Tim Roth) bring their young son to their posh lake retreat, they notice the neighbors acting strangely, as well as the presence of two sunken-eyed preppy sociopaths (Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet) lurking in the background. The young men insinuate themselves into Ann and George's house, torture the family and thwart all efforts to escape. Haneke has Pitt repeatedly speak into the camera and offer the audience the option of leaving, as if the director is so proud of his monument to nihilism, he knows that his viewers cannot endure his beloved intensity.

"Funny Games” alternately plays like a film school project by the most pretentious student in class and a latecomer to the already moribund torture genre. There are no extras of any significance. What it needs is a self-destruct function, since so many viewers will want to excise "Funny Games” from their lives after their first and only painful, pointless exposure.


www.funnygames-themovie.com

[bez]

original french one is boss

[Don Jacob]

well alright.

[Eddie G.]

this movie was ridiculous.  i don't know exactly how i feel about it, but it definitely stays with you for a while.